aljava

Old Galician-Portuguese

Borrowed from Arabic جَعْبَة (jaʕba).

*aljava f (plural aljavas)

(hapax legomenon) quiver (arrow container)
Synonym: carcaix
- 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, chapter 121, in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle]‎^[1], translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, page 44v:
  Et leuauã todos seus arcos tendudos et aljauas ben cheas de saetas.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aljaua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “aljaua”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Aljava

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese aljava, borrowed from Arabic جَعْبَة (jaʕba). Cognate with Galician alxaba.

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /awˈʒa.vɐ/ [aʊ̯ˈʒa.vɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /awˈʒa.va/ [aʊ̯ˈʒa.va]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /alˈʒa.vɐ/ [aɫˈʒa.vɐ]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /alˈʒa.bɐ/ [aɫˈʒa.βɐ]

aljava f (plural aljavas)